The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.
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Lincoln had bad press, too. He wasn't appreciated until after he was gone.
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You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
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There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.
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The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot and college ball and came to understand how difficult it can be.
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Tax should be the same for everybody.
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Sometimes comforting the afflicted does require afflicting the comfortable.
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I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.
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In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled 'Religious Belief and Public Morality.' I said that Catholic legislators will live by the laws of the church because we want to stay in the club.
